L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
On Benefits, translated by Aubrey Stewart in 1887, is the Roman Stoic Seneca's treatise in seven books on giving and receiving. Addressed to his friend Aebutius Liberalis, it asks what a benefit really is, how one should give, cheerfully, promptly and without expecting return, how one should receive and remember, and why ingratitude is so common. Seneca works through the hard cases: whether a slave can benefit his master, whether a son can outdo his father, whether one should return a favor to a bad man, what gratitude is owed to the gods. His examples come from Roman history and daily life, and his insistence that the giver's intention matters more than the gift has kept the book in circulation. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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